Air cleaning and moistening device



. W. F. COX.

AIR CLEANING AND MOISTENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10, ms. RENEWED JUNE 16,1921.

Patented Nov. 21, 1922.

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AIR CLEANING AND MOISTENING DEVICE.

.PPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10, 1918- RENEWED JUNE 16, 1921.

1,436,483., Patented Nov. 21, 1922.

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Qwvemtoz W. F. COX.

AIR CLEANING AND MOISTENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-10,1918. RENEWED JUNE 16.192l.

1,436A83. Patented Nov. 21, 1922.

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Patented Nov. 21, 1922. r 1,436,483

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILL F. COX, OF DANVILLE, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO SANITARY HEATING AND VENTILA'IING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF DANVILLE, VIRGINIA, A CORPOEA- TION OF VIRGINIA.

AIR CLEANING AND MOISTENING DEVICE.

Application filed September 10, 1918, Serial No. 258,412. Renewed June 18, 1921. Serial No. 478,212.

To all whom it may concern: a similar view of the furnace casing and the 55 Be it known that I, WILLIAM Cox, citiair conduits. The furnace is shown located zen of the United States, resid ng at Danin the casing and the air heating flue is ville in the county of Pittsylvania and State shown as extending from the furnace in 5 of Virginia, have inventedcertain new and order to carry of the heated gases.

useful Improvements in Air Cleaning and Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the air con- Moistening Devices; and I do hereby deduits and liquid pans, the registers being clare the following to be a full, clear, and exremoved for the purpose of clearness. act description of the invention, such as Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the a will enable others skilled in the art to which air c eaner baflie supports and a portion of it'appertains to make and use the same. one of the baflies.

This invention has for its object to im- Fig. 4 is a detail showing the manner in prove that class of heating plants, known .which the baflle supports are carried by the as pipeless orsingle pipe furnaces. With 1i uid pans.

,5 such plants the heater 18 arranged below the ig. 5 is a detail showing the upper end of first floor of the house and the hot air uses the baflle divided and passing into both sides through a central register in the firs fl of one of the liquid pan troughs, whereby a while the cold hirdescen s t0 th f e double wick is provided for each air cleanthrough registers arranged at the sides of the in bafile.

:0 central re 'ster. n the drawings 1 represents a casing With a eating plant of th s character, it which is preferably located in the cellar of 7 will be seen that the same a r is used cona house and 2 designates the first floor of tinuously, for the heated air rises and passes the house. A furnace 3 is located in the easthrough the rooms of the house and bcing and is preferably fed and controlled ;5 coming cold descends and 18 again hea from the exterior of the casing-by extending and re-used. This continuous using of the the front of the furnace through the casing. same air is unsanitary and, therefore, my 111- The heated gases generated in the furnace vention contemplates providing such a heatare passed to the chimney of-the house by ing plant with means for cleaning and mOlS- means of flues 4, which have a number of m tening the air as it is fed to the furnace, So horizontal portions 5.- Located in the casing that the heated air will be free from del- 1 is an air flue 6, whi h urrounds th flu eterious matters. 4: and has its bottom open to permit air to While I have shown the air cleaning and enter th fl 6 Th ai passing dl moistening apparatus used In cqnnec cn through the flue 6 is heated b the hot gases as with the single pipe heater, I wish it underpassing through the flues 4 an emerges from stood that I do not confine myself to such apth flue through the entral r gist 7, ac plication as I am aware that the same may B fli 8 are arranged ithi th fl 6 t be used in connection with ventilation apinsure the air being forced into contact with pliances or with other heating plants. the heated flues 4.

to My air cleaning and moistemng apparatus Cold air enters the casing l by passing.

is of simple an inexpensive construction downwardly through the side registers 9, and it may be readily assembled for installathe air cleaners and moisteners 10, and the tion, or taken apart for the purpose of cleancold air conduits 11. in or renewing the parts. The air cleaners 10 are located in the cold at lhe invention consists in the novel feaair conduits 11 and as these cleanersare identures hereinafter deacribed in connection tical only one will be described. with the accompanying drawings, in which My improved cleaning and moistening ap- I have shown oneform or embodiment of the paratus comprises a liquid pan 12 connected invention, and the improvements are more by means o a pipe 13 to a liquid suppl' 50 particularly pointed out in the appended tank 14 having afloat control valve 15, whic claims. regulates the amount of liquidfed to the Referring to the drawings: pan 12. The pan is provided with a series Fig. 1 is a transverse vertical sectional of spaced trou hs 16 which communicate at view of a portion of the floor of a house and one end with t e pan and are supplied with a liquid by the pan. Located in the spaces 17 between the troughs are staggered baflies 18 for cleaning and moistening the air passing downwardly through the cold air conduits 11.

Each of these baflies consists of side rods 19, which are of zig-zag shape and terminate at their upper ends in hooks 20 that; engage the'troughs 16 as shown in Fig. 4, for supporting the ba e. The bends 21 of the side rods are connected to cross bars 22 for securing the side rods together. A doubled cloth 23 of absorbent material has its lower end passed around the lower cross bar, is arranged over the intermedlate cross bars, and has its upper end connected by a fastening 25 to the top cross bar and is divided into two wicks 24. The wicks, as shown in Fig. 5, are arranged along the sides of the troughs 16 and are bent downwardly nto the troughs, so that by capillary attraction, they will draw li uid from the troughs and feed it down the i ull length of the bafiies.

' If it is desired to remove a baflie, the hook 20 of the baflie is grasped and the baflie is raised upwardly through the space between adjacent troughs 16, and if it is desired to remove the cloth 23 from the frame formed by the rods 19, and bars 22, it is only necessary to remove the fastening 25 from the baflle and the cloth can then be unwound from its frame. v

In operation, air will pass downwardly through the ba-flies and be directed in a staggered. course, so that any particles of dust or the like carried by the air will be caught by the moistened surfaces of the .sisting of staggered side re 8 cloths. The air is thuscleaned and moistened and it descends 'until it reaches the bottom of the flue 6. The air then rises and is heated by the flues 4.

From the foregoing, it will be. seen that I have combined a furnace of the type described, with means for cleaning and moistening the air fed.to the furnace and that I have also provided a novel air cleaning-and moistening device.

What I claim and desire ters Patent is 1. An air cleaning and moistening appa ratus comprising a liquid containing receptacle, staggered frames having. hooks supported by said receptacle, and absorbent cloths coveriug said frames and having to secure by Letwicks resting in said receptacle for drawing liquid from the same. y

2. An air cleaning and moistening apparatus comprising a li uid containing receptacle including space troughs, a series of vertically disposed Staggered frames located beneath said receptacle.and having hookshaped upper ends engaging said troughs and absorbent baflies covering said frames and having wicks resting in said troughs for drawing liquid from the same. I

3.;In an air cleaning and moistening apparatus, a baflle comprisin a frame conhaving hookshaped upper ends, cross bars connecting the side rods, and an absorbent material covering said frame and having a wick at its upper end. In testimony whereof I afiix my s'i ature. 

